Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow Into the air. It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. When a woman sees another woman beautifully dressed, she is apt to say, “She is all right, but she is a little over dressed.” People will say, “We have to live,” when the truth is, they wouldn’t be missed. If we had bad habits you do not know, be sure your baby will imitate everyone of them. A real stingy man looks out of place going hunting, for we know he will waste some ammunition. Old men usually have their mouths smeared up with tobacco or something or other, while old women are always clean looking. If you want to see the difference before and after a ball, you should see a girl going co a dance and the following morning. A group of gray headed men will naturally fall to telling when they began to get gray.

A great many men live on the reputation they once had. Nobody is as uncharitable as the man who has the same fault as his opponent. Some days one seems to hear nothing but about people’s troubles. A man who says, “If you do so and so, I will make it all right,” we know too much to expect anything. Unless men are excellent Christians, they are all swearing when thu women have a reception. A boy just naturally gets a good deal of satisfaction out of limping after he has been in a foot ball game. A good many men want to carry a revolver only after they have been robbed. _ J Whenever the spring lock is set you will be sure to pull the door shut after you when you go out. Isn’t it awful the way things of no account accumulate about the house. A man singing soprano always sounds funny. After a preacher has been away for sometime, it must make him think of the small crowds he used to preach to, when he comes back on a visit.

The size of the envelope does not determine the size of the check that may come in it. Farmers say the windmill never stops except when the water tank is empty. „ . It is unsafe to be idle, for you always attract loafers. Some men would have no business and no enjoyment if they could not meddle. A preacher eating with his knife is no doubt orthodox all right, but he looks funny. Men with ambition and no brains are to be pitied.